Listen to the harrowing 911 calls from inside Sandy Hook school

Seven landline phone calls from inside Sandy Hook Elementary School to Newtown police are expected to be released after 2 p.m. today.

“We all understand why some people have strong feelings about the release of these tapes. This was a horrible crime,” said Kathleen Carroll, AP executive editor and senior vice president.

The Associated Press has been asking for the release of the tapes for nearly a year. The audio is being made public days after a Connecticut prosecutor dropped his fight to continue withholding them despite an order to provide them to AP.